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Publisher's Summary

Easy American Idioms cuts through the confusion and teaches natural-sounding conversational English. This set contains a 64-page book (see below) and four 60-minute audio sections. It focuses on everyday situations: meeting people, expressing likes and dislikes, working, shopping, socializing, sports, television, going out, and more. Each section features useful and appropriate idiomatic expressions with dialogues interspersed between lessons.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Functional and fun

It's an excellent selection of idioms that can come in handy for non-native speakers of English. The situations didn't feel far-fetched. Learners of American English can use these examples of conversational English in a wide range of different contexts. The set can be used for self-study purposes or in the classroom.That was a good buy.

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Helpful eventhough some idioms are uncommon!

totally understandable and fluent accent. interesting to follow the stories.the best suggestion is to upgrade the idioms and use mostly the slangs which is more popular. These idioms most are using by older people rather than young generation.